Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bridal Wise (by Albert Hackett & Frances Goodrich; Sigourney Thayer, producer). Playwrights Hackett & Goodrich wrote an eminently satisfactory comedy two seasons ago called Up Pops the Devil. Their present piece, staged by that wise theatrician Frank Craven, again reveals the team's genuine gift for comedy...
Ably performed by James Rennie and Madge Kennedy, Bridal Wise concerns itself with the tale of a horsey husband and his non-horsey wife whose marriage runs on the rocks because of their antipodal interests. After the divorce, Alan Burroughs marries a sort of female centaur. Joyce Burroughs mates with the family lawyer...
...slack line casts, how to study a stream: "Sometimes the water may look flat and uninteresting but close examination will reveal many small holes scattered here and there usually in each of these holes will be found trout. . . . No matter how shallow the water may be, it is always wise to fish where there are rocks of any size. . . Always the short cast is preferable to a long...
...Manhattan Island. ..... Litt D. William Henry ("Popsy") Welch, Dean of U. S. Medicine, board president of Rockefeller Institute, professor of history of medicine at Johns Hopkins University ...... Sc.D. Reinald Werrenrath, baritone, N. Y. U. alumnus ...... Mus.D. Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange ..... C.S.D. Jonah Bondi Wise, rabbi of Manhattan's Central Synagog, editor of The American Israelite ..... Litt.D...
There was a fine gentleman by name of Carney for years in charge of the Square. He knew all the active leaders in college, all the bad actors, all the Harvard Square "students." Carney was always wise enough to be able to steer any incipient riots into the Yard, where everything died quietly...